Sunset Country Club

Thursday Turf Minute: Golf Course Spray Applications Every Thursday I will provide a tip or turf minute from the USGA Green Section. Some of these videos will include their recommendations when it comes to the health of the golf course or some will be more of a lesson on some of the work that takes place on the golf course. This week will be a short video on spray applications and how technology plays a roll in this very important process.

This week at Sunset: 7-3-2017 Happy Independence Day from your golf course maintenance staff! Well, so far for July, we have started off drier than we did in June. We’re now getting more seasonable temperatures for this time of year and the threat of afternoon pop-ups are expected as we cruise on through this month. Last month, we totaled around 11” of rain and it is certainly evident of that throughout the course. We are still catching up on mowing the rough. Please bear with us as we have some more favorable days ahead for mowing and we will knock the bahia grass down as soon as possible. I have been talking with Jacobsen (our mower supplier) and I am hoping we get an extra rough mower this week to combat our course and to have it ready for the Ramsey Pidcock.  The greens are coming around nicely from the last verticut and topdressing. We have been able to verticut our greens 3 times in the last 2 months and we will probably do 1 more verticut in August and t...

Thursday Turf Minute: Benefits of Sand Topdressing Every Thursday I will provide a tip or turf minute from the USGA Green Section. Some of these videos will include their recommendations when it comes to the health of the golf course or some will be more of a lesson on some of the work that takes place on the golf course. This week will be a short video on sand topdressing and why we do it and why it's important.

This Week at Sunset: 6-26-2017 #4 Green at sunset. It looks like we will finish June out with some drier weather this week. However, rain chances return Thursday evening with some scattered thunderstorms through the weekend and early next week. Last week, the golf course received just over 4 inches of rain including the ½ inch we received yesterday. The rain is always welcomed this time of year, but not that much in a short amount of time. Ideally, it’d be nice to have about a ½ inch every Monday and then around a ¼ inch every Friday. As I’ve mentioned in prior posts, the rain has created an abundance of growth throughout the golf course. It is a double-edged sword as it certainly brings more bermuda growth, but it also brings on the onslaught of unwanted grasses and weeds. In particular, the bahia grass has certainly shown its muscles and has really taken off. Also, the goosegrass(crowfoot) has really benefited from all the rain. We will have our deck mower out all...

Thursday Tip: Bunker Etiquette Every Thursday I will provide a tip from the USGA Green Section on their recommendations when it comes to the health of the turf and course care around our golf course.

This Week at Sunset: 6-19-2017 Last week we were in the midst of a rain system passing through this area and the next 2 days we will be dealing with the wet stuff. The latest forecast that I have seen has rain totals estimating between 3 and 4 inches. This system is an unorganized tropical system and so we will have on and off showers much of Monday evening and into Tuesday. We certainly will take the rain any chance we get it, but too much cloud cover and too much moisture over a long period of time can be just as dangerous to bermuda grass., especially TifEagle. So, we will take the rain, but not 4". We had the Air2G2 performed to the greens last Monday and Tuesday. Overall, the aerification went as well as expected. I have mentioned in past blogs that the benefits truly will not be seen immediately, but after subsequent aerifications. However, I have seen some results in only a week from scouting and walking the greens. The immediate result has been that water is g...

Friday Tip: Ball Mark Repair and Filling Divots Every Thursday I will provide a tip from the USGA Green Section on their recommendations when it comes to the health of the turf around our golf course. However, this week I let Thursday slip by without doing a Thursday tip. So, here you go... Ball Mark Repair: Divot Repairs: